Seel (Oth. i. 3, Macb. iii. 1), to close the eye-lids of a hawk by passing a fine thread through them, with a view to making it tame.
Sennet, sinnet, cynet, signate, a set of notes on the trumpet or clarion, usually employed to denote the approach of a person of rank. It is perhaps only a corruption of sonata, It.
Servant. In the gallantry of those days servant, as the correlative of mistress, denoted the lover. It came from the French serviteur, which occurs in this sense continually in the Nouvelles of the Queen of Navarre. In Italian 'cavalier servente' is hardly yet out of use.
Setabos (Temp. i. 2). "The giants [Patagonians], when they found themselves fettered, roared like bulls, and cried upon their great devil, Setabos, to help them" (Eden, Hist. of Travel, 1577).
Shard (Ham. v. i), a piece of broken pot, tile, etc. This word has also two other senses—namely, a piece of cow-dung, and a scale, the latter only in these lines of Gower:
"He mighte noughte that serpent dere;
He was so scherded all aboute."
Conf. Am. v.
"She sigh her thought a dragon tho',
Whose sherdes shinen as the sonne."